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At least 303 Roma women and men are running in the Czech local elections in October, both incumbent local assembly members and new faces

At least 303 Roma women and men are running in the Czech local elections on 9 and 10 October. News server Romea.cz has ...
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After 23 years directing the Museum of Romani Culture in the Czech Republic, Jana Horváthová has resigned

Jana Horváthová, the longtime director of the Museum of Romani Culture in the Czech Republic, is stepping down after almost ...
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Czech appeals court says movement did not commit a crime by using racist images in its campaign ads, prosecutor says he will consider appealing to the Supreme Court

The "Freedom and Direct Democracy" (SPD) movement's 2024 racist campaign ads did not constitute incitement to hatred or any other crime. The Municipal Court in Prague ruled on the matter today, ...
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Czech editor of local daily reports death threats against Roma students to police, visits students in person, BARUVAS participant responds with humorous posts of hi…

The racist comments underneath a Facebook post by a local daily for the Bruntál and Krnov area of the Czech Republic about ...
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Patrik Grundza: Deportations, gas chambers, and silence. Where are the Czech politicians when Roma youth are threatened with annihilation?

When a little Ukrainian girl was cursed out by other children in a school here, the Czech President invited her to Prague ...
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Czech Govt Commissioner for Roma Minority Affairs Edita Stejskalová condemns racism toward Roma students: Threats to deport people or gas them to death are n…

The insulting, racist online comments targeting the Roma women and men participating in the BARUVAS gathering in the Jeseníky ...
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Czech Government Commissioner for Roma Minority Affairs Edita Stejskalová at Holocaust ceremony: Hatred toward Roma children is not a closed chapter of history

Czech Government Commissioner for Roma Minority Affairs Edita Stejskalová, in her speech to the commemorative gathering at ...
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Miroslav Klempár: After Roma parents changed their child's name to a Czech one, her teachers gave her such good grades that she became the best pupil in town

In my previous two commentaries for Romea.cz I wrote about children of Romani origin being segregated away from everybody ...
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Unidentified Romani woman stood up to Soviet soldiers during the August 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia, saving the life of René Böll, son of Nobel Prize-winning …

He was 20 years old, photographing occupied Prague in August 1968, when a Soviet soldier tried to confiscate his camera, ...
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Czech court rules Interior Ministry violated political movement's rights by mentioning it in extremism report for the second half of 2022, judgment has yet to take effect

The District Court for Prague 7 has ruled that the Czech Interior Ministry violated the rights of the "Freedom and Direct Democracy" (SPD) movement by mentioning it in its report on extremism and ...
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Miroslav Klempár: The European Court of Human Rights did not pass judgment on Roma children, but on the Czech Republic

The fine that the Czech Republic could face for failing to end ethnic segregation in education is calculated in euro. What ...
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Nejméně 303 Romů a Romek kandiduje v letošních komunálních volbách. Na radnice míří zkušení zastupitelé i nové tváře

Nejméně 303 Romů a Romek kandiduje v letošních komunálních volbách, které se uskuteční 9. a 10. října. Vyplývá to z analýzy ...